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Kim also wears little make-up and has her raven locks in a funky top knot, but of course all eyes are fixated on her bottom.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star posed for a second, and much less revealing, cover for the magazine.

Anyone for bubbly?: In an alternative cover, the reality star pours champagne into a glass balanced on her bottom

Someone's a fan: Kanye West posted the bare bottom photo on Twitter with the caption: '#ALLDAY'

The pictures were taken by Jean-Paul Goude at a secret location in Paris in September, and Kim recreated his well-known Champagne Incident shot.

Paper magazine's editorial director Mickey Boardman told Yahoo! Style: '[There was] much less [retouching] than people think. That’s really what she looks like. Kim’s attitude was "if we’re gonna do it, let’s really go there." And it was her idea to take off her clothes and show more than her butt.'

He also revealed: 'It is not padded. It is not augmented. That is all really her.'

When asked who put the oil on Kim's famous derriere, he said: 'It was the make-up artist. It was someone who she works with a lot so she felt comfortable.'

TMZ reports that Kim shot the instantly iconic photo because it's her last stand before getting pregnant again.

They report: 'We know Kim is telling close friends and family she's about to get pregnant again, and wants to show off her body before the weight gain.

'She's proud she dumped the weight after North was born and wants to show her tight figure off.'

TMZ also claims that a source with Paper magazine told them that Kim was not paid for the cover shoot.

The gossip site goes on to report that Kim shot the instantly infamous photos during Paris Fashion Week.

The mother-of-one posed in the sparkly black dress with her posterior stuck out and a champagne glass balancing on top of it.

Kim held a bottle of bubbly which was shooting into the air and landing into the perfectly placed glass.

After she proudly shared the snapshots to her Twitter page, Kim wrote: 'And they say I didn't have a talent...try balancing a champagne glass on your ass LOL.'

Kanye West was certainly a big fan of his wife's bare bottom photo, and posted it to his own page with the caption: '#ALLDAY.'

The images were unveiled on Paper magazine's website, along with the words: 'For our winter issue, we gave ourselves one assignment: Break The Internet. There is no other person that we can think of who is up to the task than one Kim Kardashian West.

Gearing up for the cover to come out: Kim was seen heading to an office building in Los Angeles on Monday

'A pop culture fascination able to generate headlines just by leaving her house, Kim is what makes the web tick.' The issue hits newsstands on November 19.

Kim recently stripped off for British GQ, lying on a bed and kicking her heels up to slightly conceal her most famous asset.

The wife of Kanye posed nude for Playboy in 2007, but revealed to Harper's Bazaar in 2010 that she regretted it.

'I'm sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable,' she told the publication.

She's definitely not shy: The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, pictured with husband Kanye West earlier this month, recently stripped off for GQ, but has admitted she regrets posing nude for Playboy in 2007